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Chapter 5: The Confrontation I
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THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 74: The Warning
The drive back to David's office took less than twenty minutes, but to Vivian it felt like hours. She kept one hand pressed against her coat pocket the entire way, feeling the sharp corners of the memorandum through the fabric. Every time they stopped at a red light, she checked the mirrors to make sure no one was following them.When they finally walked into the office, David was waiting in the conference room. He looked up as they entered, his expression shifting from impatience to concern when he saw their faces."You found it," he said.Vivian pulled the memorandum from her pocket and placed it on the table, followed by her phone with the photographs of the ledgers. "We found everything," she said. "But I need you to keep the original documents. Marcus and I are going to have to move fast, and I can't risk carrying all of it."---David nodded, immediately pulling on a pair of latex gloves to handle the paper. He read the memorandum first, then scrolled slowly through the photogra
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 73: The Missing Piece
The bank opened at nine, and Vivian was standing outside the doors ten minutes before that.She had not slept well. She had spent the night going over Elizabeth's instructions until the words blurred, checking and rechecking the name, the box number, and the code. Elizabeth had also given her an authorization phrase, a short line of words that would confirm her identity to the bank, and Vivian had repeated it to herself so many times that it no longer sounded like language.Marcus stood beside her. He had not said much all morning, but he had not needed to. He was there, and that was enough.They walked inside.---The bank was old and quiet.Marble floors, high ceilings, and a row of tellers behind a long counter. Vivian approached the counter and gave the false name Elizabeth had written down, along with the box number and the access code. The woman behind the desk checked a ledger, then a computer, and then looked up with a neutral expression."Box two-one-seven. I'll need to confi
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 72: The Evidence
Vivian returned to the city with the folder tucked beneath her arm.Marcus drove, and neither of them spoke for most of the journey. The road stretched ahead beneath a gray sky as Vivian spent the hours going through the notes her mother had given her. Names she did not recognize. Places she had never been. Dates that meant nothing to her yet.By the time they reached the city, it was late afternoon, and she went straight to David's office.David was in a meeting when she arrived, but he stepped out when he saw her. He looked at the folder in her hands and led her into the conference room without asking questions. "You found something.""I found my mother. And I found this."She set the folder on the table and opened it. David sat down and began to read. He turned each page carefully, studying the notes and the names, and when he finally looked up, his expression had changed. "Where did you get this?""From Elizabeth. She infiltrated the network years ago and copied records, documents
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 71: The Secret Mission
Vivian did not return to the city that night. She and Marcus found a small inn on the edge of town, and she spent the evening sitting by the window, thinking about everything Elizabeth had told her. The evidence existed. The records were real. Her mother had spent twenty years gathering proof of what Richard had done. But she had not told Vivian where any of it was. Vivian understood why. If Helena Voss was still out there, and if Helena knew the records existed, she would do anything to destroy them. But understanding the caution did not make the waiting easier. She barely slept. --- The next morning, she returned to Elizabeth's house. Her mother was in the garden, kneeling beside a bed of roses with a pair of pruning shears in her hand. She looked up when Vivian opened the gate, and something in her expression shifted. "You came back." "I told you I would." Elizabeth set down the shears and stood. She wiped her hands on her apron and walked toward Vivian. "I thought you would
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 70: The Truth
Vivian woke before sunrise in the small house at the end of the lane. She had slept in the spare room, on a narrow bed beneath a window that looked out at the garden. The room was clean and quiet, and for the first time in weeks she had slept without dreaming. She rose and dressed and found Elizabeth in the kitchen, standing at the counter with a cup of tea in her hands. Her mother turned when Vivian entered, and something in her expression was different from the day before. It was heavier and more guarded. "You slept well?" "Yes." "Good." Elizabeth set down her cup. "There's something I need to tell you. Something I should have told you years ago." Vivian sat down at the table. "What is it?" --- Elizabeth was quiet for a long moment. "I have never told you the full story of why I gave you up. I told you that Richard threatened me and that I believed he would hurt you. But I never told you what happened the night I made the decision." She paused. "When you were five years old
THE FAKE HEIRESS and Her OBSESSIVE BROTHER Chapter 69: The Reunion
The town was smaller than Vivian expected. It sat on the western edge of the country, tucked between low hills and a river that ran slow and gray beneath an old stone bridge. There were two streets, a market, a church, and a scattering of houses that had been built decades ago and never touched since. The rain had stopped by the time they arrived, and the sky was pale and quiet. Vivian stood at the edge of the town and looked at the address Clara had given her. Clara had called the night before, after speaking with Elizabeth, and told her that Elizabeth had agreed to the meeting. She had given Vivian the address and told her to come alone, but Vivian had brought Marcus anyway, because she did not trust anything about this situation enough to walk into it by herself. "This is it." Marcus stepped out of the car and stood beside her. "Are you ready?" "No." "Then we can wait." "No." Vivian folded the paper and tucked it into her pocket. "I've waited long enough." --- The house was
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